Ecclesiastes 3:10 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ I have seen the affliction that God has given to the sons of men, in order that they may be occupied by it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ I have seen the painful labor and exertion and miserable business which God has given to the sons of men with which to exercise and busy themselves.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ I have observed the task that God has given human beings.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁰ I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 3:10 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return."

Ecclesiastes 11:5

In the same manner that you do not know the way of the spirit, nor the way that bones are joined together in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the works of God, who is the Maker of all.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

God has given, to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and rejoicing. But to the sinner, he has given affliction and needless worrying, so as to add, and to gather, and to deliver, to him who has pleased God. But this, too, is emptiness and a hollow worrying of the mind.

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For you remember, brothers, our hardship and weariness. We preached the Gospel of God among you, working night and day, so that we would not be burdensome to any of you.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

Nor did we eat bread from anyone for free, but rather, we worked night and day, in hardship and weariness, so as not to be burdensome to you.